Absolute Power (film)

Absolute Power
A angry man looks to the viewer while the US Secret Service logo and a dead woman is in the bottom with the film's title
Theatrical release poster
Directed byClint Eastwood
Screenplay byWilliam Goldman
Based onAbsolute Power
by David Baldacci
Produced by
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Karen S. Spiegel
Starring
CinematographyJack N. Green
Edited byJoel Cox
Music byLennie Niehaus
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release date
  • February 14, 1997 (1997-02-14)
Running time
121 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$50 million[1]
Box office$92.8 million[2]

Absolute Power is a 1997 American political action thriller film produced by, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a master jewel thief who witnesses the killing of a woman by Secret Service agents.[3] The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1996 novel Absolute Power by David Baldacci. Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival,[4] the film also stars Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott Glenn, Dennis Haysbert, and Richard Jenkins. It was also the last screen appearance of E. G. Marshall. The scenes in the museum were filmed in the Walters Art Museum, where Whitney is copying a painting of El Greco, "Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata"[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Numbers was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "The Top 125". Variety. February 9, 1998. p. 31.
  3. ^ "Clint Eastwood Is Returning to Acting". MovieWeb. May 21, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
  4. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Absolute Power". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
  5. ^ "Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata | the Walters Art Museum".